2024-25 REEESNe Student Conference
With generous support from its external sponsor, as well as from the Yale MacMillan Center's Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Program and Central Asia Initiative and from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, REEESNe is holding its annual FREE student conference at Yale University on March 29-30, 2025. This event brings together undergraduate students and students in Master's programs (including students doing Master's-level work in doctoral programs) from across the northeast. The conference features panels of student research presentations, roundtables for sharing of student experience with endeavors such as internships and activism, a professionalization panel with alumni who have applied their REEES-related expertise to diverse careers, cultural events, and more. Presentation proposals and financial aid applications were due by February 3rd, 2025. In-person attendance for non-participants is permitted without registration (we ask that only participants join in the meals); online attendance of the hybrid sessions is also possible via the links below.
Conference Schedule
Many events on March 29th are hybrid sessions with links for attending them online in Zoom webinar format - please click the hyperlinked text below at the time of the event to join (no registration required)
March 29th (all times listed in Eastern U.S. Time, 5 hours behind Berlin and 6 hours behind Kyiv)
10:45-11:45 Hybrid: Conference Welcome and Alumni Career Panel (Luce Hall Auditorium)
• Maria Grosjean, Fulbright Scholar with the Russian State University for the Humanities and Literary Manager at The Bay Street Theatre (BA Stephens College)
• Aemin Becker, Consultant with Booz Allen (BA University of New Haven)
• Hugh Truslow, Head of Social Sciences and Visualization with Harvard University's Fung Library (BA University of Vermont; MSLIS Simmons University)
• Lily Nemirovsky, Bishkek Program Coordinator with SRAS (BA Mount Holyoke College)
12:00-1:15 Hybrid Lunch and Lightning-Round Presentations on Student Experiences in the Field (lunch served in the Luce Common Room)
• Central Asian Experience I & II (Luce Hall room 202)
• Russian & East European Experience I & II (Luce Hall room 203)
1:30-2:00 Student Presentations from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences in Budva, Montenegro (Luce Hall Auditorium - no longer hybrid)
2:10-2:40 Student Presentations from Mariupol State University (Luce Hall Auditorium - no longer hybrid)
3:00-4:15 Hybrid Keynote: "Why did the Russo-Ukrainian War start in Donbas?" - Sergiy Kudelia, Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University (Luce Hall Auditorium)
4:30-6:00 Session I: Panels of Student Research Papers
• Nationalism, Patriarchy, and (De)Coloniality in Central Asia (Luce 202) - Moderator: Daniel Brooks (Mount Holyoke College)
• Transition from Imperial Regimes (Luce 203) - Moderator: Doug Rogers (Yale University)
• Putinism and Its Pasts (RKZ 02) - Moderator: Maria Grosjean (Fulbright Scholar formerly with the Russian State University for the Humanities)
• Politics of Emigration and Immigration (RKZ 102) - Moderator: Hugh Truslow (Harvard University)
• East European Literature in Times of Conflict, from WWII to the War in Ukraine (RKZ 202) - Moderator: Carol Ueland (Drew University)
6:30-8:30 Dinner, Exhibition, and Concert (Miller Hall at Yale's Institute for Sacred Music)
• 6:30: Appetizer service
• 6:45: Welcome and Concert by Yale's Near Eastern & Balkan Ensemble
• 7:15: Dinner and Viewing of the Bulgarian Icon Exhibition "Noah's Garden: The Porcelain Worlds of Svetlozar Parmakov"
March 30th (all times listed in Eastern U.S. Time, 6 hours behind Berlin and 7 hours behind Kyiv)
7:45-8:45 Breakfast (Luce Hall Common Room)
8:45-10:15 Session II: Panels of Student Research Papers (Luce Hall and Rosenkranz Hall Classrooms)
• State and Nation in Central Asia (Luce Rm. 202) - Moderator: Regine Spector (UMass Amherst)
• Works of Religious and Societal (Un)Orthodoxy in Imperial Russia (Luce Rm. 203) - Moderator: Carol Ueland (Drew University)
• Liberalization and the Limits of the State in Post-Socialist and Contemporary Russia (RKZ 02) - Moderator: Ian MacMillen (Yale University)
• Research as Advocacy and Representation for Minority Populations (RKZ 102) - Moderator: Bradley Woodworth (University of New Haven)
• Maps to Films: Visual Culture and Sense-Making in Imperial and Soviet Russia (RKZ 202) - Moderator: Daniel Brooks (Mount Holyoke College)
• Literature, Theory, and the State (RKZ 05) - Moderator: Daria Kirjanov (University of New Haven)
10:30-12:10 Session III: Panels of Student Research Papers (Luce Hall and Rosenkranz Hall Classrooms)
• Approaching Life and Language through Poetic Verse (Luce Rm. 202) - Moderator: Carol Ueland (Drew University)
• Transatlantic Migration and Social Relations (Luce Rm. 203) - Moderator: Daria Kirjanov (University of New Haven)
• Russia’s War in Ukraine (RKZ 02) - Moderator: Sergiy Kudelia (Baylor University)
• The Political and Cultural Consequences of Russian Regional Alliances (RKZ 102) - Moderator: Regine Spector (UMass Amherst)
• Societal Challenges and Movements in Central Europe (RKZ 202) - Moderator: Ian MacMillen (Yale University)
12:10-1:00 Lunch: Eat in or Grab It to Go (Luce Hall Common Room)
Sponsorship is provided by:
- REEESNe's generous donor
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Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program
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Central Asia Initiative
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
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The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund